Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)

Department of International Affairs

Associate Director of GLOBIS (Center for the Study of Global Issues)   

Winner of the 2007 School of Public and International Affairs Teaching Award

                                                        The University of Georgia      

                                                        Athens, Georgia 30602-1615      

                                                        e-mail: mcrepaz@uga.edu      

                                                         phone: 706-542-2149      

                                                         Fax: 706-542-4421      

      "Majoritarianism is: two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner". 

        As an Austrian national, I began my graduate studies of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. I finished my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1992. For two years, I was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Miami, FL, and since 1993 I am faculty member at The University of Georgia.

        My research focus is comparative politics, particularly comparative political economy and institutions, West European Politics, research methods, and social theory. More recently, I have explored the connections between generalized trust and the willingness of members of dominant societies in Europe to continue paying taxes even in the face of increasing immigration. My teaching of comparative politics includes the comparative politics of advanced industrial democracies, introduction to comparative politics and political development, advanced comparative methods,  research design, constitutional engineering, immigration and the causes and consequences of social trust.

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